Transfer-frame for letter-files and binders.



No. 703,767. Pata ntod Iuly I, I902.

.1. r. canoes. 1 TRANSFER FRAME FUR LETTER FILES AND BINDERS.

(Application filed Feb. 9, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES ATENT FFICEr JOHN F. CORDES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TRANSFER-FRAME FOR LETTER-FILES AND BINDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 703,767, dated J uly-1, 1902.

Application filed February 2, 1901. Serial No. 45,750. (No model.)

To all whom itmtty concern: 7

Be it known that I, JOHN F. CoRDEs,a citizen of the United States,residing atChicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful 'Improvements in Transferrames. forLetter Files, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates vto a transfer arch frame or carrier to be usedwith letter-files and 1oose 1e'af binders, order-blanksand receipt-holders of the class known aspostbinders; and the "object ofmyinvention is to provide an improved simple devicewhicli may beadjusted to various binders having posts at different distances apartand which when not in use may be'folded up into acornpact form. I

My invention consists in two base-bars hinged together, each having anarch-post swiveled to the swinging ends thereof, the arched'ends of thesaid posts being provided with cups or suitable end fittingsto connectwith the upper ends of the impaling-postsof the binder, the arch-postsbeing thus adapted to 'move toward and from each other and the archedupper ends thereof to be held away from the hinged bars and-parallel toeach other, when in use, and to be turned backwardly to overhang thesaid hinged bars when the frameis folded up into a compact form,

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate my invention, Figure 1 isa perspective view of my improved transfer-frame applied to apost-binder. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the transfer-frame upon anenlarged scale, showingby dot-lines the frame in a second position; andFig. 3, a perspective view of the transfer-framefolded up.

The base-bars A Aare hinged together at a and their opposite ends arebored and receive arch-postsBB, pivoted thereto at b, the saidarch-posts beingthus adapted to beswung either away from the base-barsin. parallel lines as shownin Figs. land 2, to engage with thebinder-posts D D of a pos't-binderE, and also to bemoved'toward'and awayfrom each otherin parallel linesas shown in Fig. 2, thus to adapt thetransfer-frame to various binders having posts at unequal distances fromeach other,-the dot-lines inFig. 2 representing the position of theframe when adapted to posts that are nearer to each other than thatshown'by fulllines in the same figure.

The pivotal connectionof the'arch-posts tothe swinging ends'of thehinged base-bars will allow the arches of the arch-posts to beturnedback over the said base-bars when the latter are folded together,as shown in Fig. 3, thus allowing the frame to be doubled up intoacompact form and hung or put up away when'not inuse. The transfer-framemay Tbelthus usedfor any'number of binders of access or to remove acertain letter from the post-binderor to remove allofthe letters orsheets therefrom and serve as a carrier to hold the said sheets andenable them to be transferred to a permanent binder when required.

The arch-posts may besecured into the ends of the hinged base barsandfremoved therefrom when the device is to be packed away; but thisconstruction is considered defective.

In largebindersthree or four posts are sometimes employed, and it isevident that a double set of hinged base-bars for each ad ditional postrequired may be employed.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. Thecombination with a jointed base, of posts adjustably secured thereonand-socketed endson said posts.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination with hinged basebars of-a. post adjustably secur'edon' each, curved ends on said postsand means "for engaging thesame on the posts of a'loose leaf'binder;

The combination with a plurality of curved posts, of means on each forengaging the posts of a loose-leaf binder and jointed each post beingcurved downwardly and probase-sections adjnstably engaging said postsvided at its extremity with a socket adapted and adapted to permit thesame to be adto engage over a post of a loose-leaf binder.

I justed to varying distances apart. JOHN F. OORDES.

5 4. A transfer-frame comprising a plurality of articulated base-bars,posts adj ustably and rotatably supported on each, the free end ofWitnesses:

WM. l-I. ROWE, G. G. HASTINGS.

